Mark Warner

All right, all right, I didn't see the wave coming. All those margin-of-error polls seemed to suggest that Democrats would likely hold their own — probably not keep the Senate but make a respectable showing overall. Wrong. All the caveats are true. It was a midterm, when the incumbent president's party usually gets a comeuppance. The Senate losses were within historical norms. In other races, some of the high-profile Republican victories involved incumbents, such as Govs. Rick Scott of Florida, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Sam Brownback of Kansas, who managed to survive after the scare of their political lives. You're telling me that Anthony Brown, an...

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